# What's the funniest single panel cartoon you've ever seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 14, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531 "2016-10-14T17:48:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/281 "2017-04-28T21:56:45Z")
My all-time favourite to date, has to be one (by whom, I have no idea) – a good many years ago now – in the now-defunct British humorous magazine _Punch_. It derived from Edward Lear’s poem “The Owl and the Pussycat”-- in particular, the portion of same: "… And there in a wood, a Piggy-Wig stood With a ring in the end of his nose. ‘Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for a shilling Your ring?’ Said the Piggy, ‘I will’ "… (they use it as their wedding ring in the shortly-to-be-performed ceremony). The cartoon shows the Owl and Pussycat negotiating with the Pig, for purchase of ring; caption has the Pig saying, “Don’t think I’m unwilling; but are you quite sure the world is ready for what you two are planning to do?” ---
**Author:** ![Lurking\_Quahog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lurking_quahog/32/21274_2.png) [@Lurking\_Quahog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lurking_Quahog)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2017, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/282 "2017-05-05T20:30:47Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > [The Far Side’s “Cat Fud.”](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/8b/c5/56/8bc556e43bc9a7edf541f9042fc4bb26.jpg) Which is still how I write it on my shopping lists. I’ve got it written on the container that I store my “cat fud” in! ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/283 "2017-05-06T04:37:59Z")
My husband and I independently came up with the same Far Side cartoon: “God, kicking serious butt on _Jeopardy_.” ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/284 "2017-05-06T05:44:50Z")
I recently went through a 650 page collection of New Yorker cartoons covering the period 1925-2005 and I think my favorite among them is [this](http://imagecache5d.allposters.com/watermarker/61-6149-22CG100Z.jpg?ch=671&cw=894&type=cns) one though I also smiled at [this](https://fineartamerica.com/featured/we-do-pretty-well-when-you-stop-to-think-that-dana-fradon.html). ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/285 "2017-05-06T06:33:20Z")
This isn’t exactly a cartoon, but [it’s fitting in a zombie thread](http://ursulav.deviantart.com/art/Where-Zombie-Babies-Come-From-6979550). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/286 "2017-05-06T08:07:21Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > Where is the Bizarro love? [Here’s](http://www.toonopedia.com/bizarro2.jpg) [some.](http://www.tcj.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/piraro002.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/287 "2017-05-10T07:59:13Z")
Another long-ago one which delighted me, which has just come back into mind for some reason. Not, I think, by anyone famous; it was a non-sex-related oddment in a girlie magazine. The cartoon shows a bunch of eighteenth-century American soldiers. The sergeant is saying to the lieutenant, “I’m a bit worried about Doodle, sir. He keeps sticking a feather in his hat and calling it macaroni”. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/288 "2017-05-10T15:43:48Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > I also had one that I don’t remember the name of the artist, but it showed two kids playing in the winter and one kid says “Look Billy I made a snow angel” and the other kid has this grin on his face and it shows the outline of a snow devil behind him. I actually emailed the artist and told him how I laugh every time I see that one and he mailed me a signed print of it. Update: it was “Speed Bump” by Dave Coverly. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/289 "2017-05-10T19:13:33Z")
I used to read a lot of _Off The Mark_- he’s usually worth a chuckle. [“Me tired of people posting pics of food.”](http://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2016/11/25) ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/290 "2017-05-10T20:23:34Z")
Another one: [shallow zombies](http://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2016/10/05). ---
**Author:** ![Annoying\_Buzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Annoying\_Buzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoying_Buzz)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/291 "2017-05-11T02:34:16Z")
Claude Serre’s dark humor was among my favorites growing up. [Here’s](https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=claude+serre+cartoon&rlz=1C1SNJD_jaJP543JP543&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiV-KPG4-bTAhXLbrwKHS3UBA8Q_AUICigB&biw=1600&bih=770#tbm=isch&q=claude+serre+&imgrc=_) a selection of work, most of which is single panel with no text. ---
**Author:** ![Swsw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Swsw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swsw)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/292 "2020-03-07T05:26:05Z")
> [@Gary\_T](#): > > Can’t find it; I’m sure it’s Gahan Wilson. > > A skeleton of a boy, with maybe a cobweb or two on it, is standing in front of a door, pressing the doorbell. He’s wearing dark glasses and holding a cup, with a sign that says “Give to the Blind.” > > The sign on the door says “School for the Deaf.” It has taken me a couple of years but I finally found the deaf/blind one. The artist was Shoemaker. I think first name is Howard. Did quite a few for Playboy. Google Shoemaker cartoons in Playboy. ---
**Author:** ![Manwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Manwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manwich)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/293 "2020-03-07T07:12:55Z")
Historio-germanic-cryptozoological-related. Broken link BAHBAHBAH [elivalley.com/political-comics/#/comics/nazi-bigfoot-erotica/](http://elivalley.com/political-comics/#/comics/nazi-bigfoot-erotica/) ---
**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/294 "2020-03-07T11:10:14Z")
Glad to see Quino’s appreciated here. [This one](https://www.pinterest.es/pin/520236194444392354/) is a lot more than funny. Hope that link works. In the upper left-hand corner, it should show a guy walking around outside in a world where people have no clothes. ---
**Author:** ![Anny\_Middon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/295 "2020-03-07T19:40:18Z")
Glad to see this zombie thread – I got a lot of laughs from the posts. One of my favorites was in _Playboy_ almost 50 years ago. A couple is having sex on a table. In the foreground is a small boy, clearly a younger brother of one, who says: “Hey! We _eat_ off that table!” ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/296 "2020-03-07T19:51:22Z")
I had this Kliban on my fridge for years [“…and bring some shit for my fly.”](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E_0f9ho1NWc/UJpoMFlH2oI/AAAAAAAABx4/hAN54K_AbGE/s1600/bkfly.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/297 "2020-03-07T20:31:21Z")
An old New Yorker cartoon I saved from one of those page-a-day calendars a few years ago. A guy is sitting in a hotel room, talking on the phone, with an impatient look on his face. “Yes yes, I love you too honey. Now put the dog on.” (The reason I saved it is because there used to be a guy who sat next to me at work, who actually would ask his wife to put the dog on the phone!) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/298 "2020-03-08T02:11:11Z")
Two penguins speaking with each other, surrounded by millions of other penguins. “You want to know what we need around here? I’ll tell you what we need around here. We some damn name tags around here.” ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/299 "2020-03-08T03:15:19Z")
My Far Side favorite: [Suddenly, amidst all the confusion, Fifi seized the controls and saved the day.](https://ifunny.co/picture/suddenly-amidst-a-the-confusion-fifi-seized-the-controls-and-HMYYl2ao3) ---
**Author:** ![pmwgreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@pmwgreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pmwgreen)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531/300 "2020-03-08T14:12:32Z")
Here’s a cartoon from way back (even before 2016) from [Mother Goose and Grimm](https://www.cafepress.com/grimmy/s__drinkware&design=707314). It must have been popular, because I can only find it on coffee mugs. You have to “cursor over” the image of the mug to see the whole panel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531.md?page=16)